Musikgarten of Oak Park
Fall 2019 Session September 9 - December 21 (No Classes November 25 - 30)
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Family Music for Babies (0-18 mo) - 40 minutes
Saturday 11:45 AM
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In this 40 minute class, adults have the opportunity to play musically with their baby so that their well-being and total development might be served. Parents, or caregivers, will learn many songs for touching eyes and ears, hands and feet - to help baby learn about the body and to build body awareness; songs for wiggling and tickling - to help baby enjoy the delight of music; songs for movement - to allow baby to feel the flow, beat, meter, phrase, and nuance for music.
This class is rich in interactive songs - bouncing, rocking and dancing songs - to express the joy of playing together. We sing rocking and quiet songs, to help baby calm him/herself. We explore various rhythm instruments that baby can use and manipulate as he/she learns about sound, timbre, and vibration. There is much repetition from week to week because repetition of simple songs and rhymes enhances memory, oral expression and later written language.
Our goal is to awaken baby's natural curiosity and response to music, to develop aural perception, a musical sense, and a sense of beat, and to encourage pleasure in listening to and making music together at home. Come enjoy a wonderful playtime with your baby, and meet other moms, dads and caregivers!
Tuition: $235
Materials: $44 (sales tax included) Baby CD 1 CD/Booklet and instruments
Total: $279 (Deduct $11 if you already own instrument packet)
This class is rich in interactive songs - bouncing, rocking and dancing songs - to express the joy of playing together. We sing rocking and quiet songs, to help baby calm him/herself. We explore various rhythm instruments that baby can use and manipulate as he/she learns about sound, timbre, and vibration. There is much repetition from week to week because repetition of simple songs and rhymes enhances memory, oral expression and later written language.
Our goal is to awaken baby's natural curiosity and response to music, to develop aural perception, a musical sense, and a sense of beat, and to encourage pleasure in listening to and making music together at home. Come enjoy a wonderful playtime with your baby, and meet other moms, dads and caregivers!
Tuition: $235
Materials: $44 (sales tax included) Baby CD 1 CD/Booklet and instruments
Total: $279 (Deduct $11 if you already own instrument packet)
Family Music (18 mo-3 yrs) - 40 minutes
Saturday 9:00 AM - CLASS IS FULL
Saturday 10:45 AM - CLASS IS FULL
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Saturday 10:45 AM - CLASS IS FULL
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Children will love making music along with their parent (or other grown-up). We sing songs from all different cultures! Songs of contrasting tonalities, moods, and meters. We do finger plays, wiggling and tickling activities, body awareness songs and bouncing songs to experience the joy of playing together! Lots of movement is part of this class to allow children to feel the beat of music and learn about spatial awareness while enhancing their gross motor skills and coordination. Children will wander (hence the name) during this class, and adults are not to worry... they are still listening and taking everything in! Children need time to explore the environment, and as long as they are not endangering themselves or another child, wandering is just fine!
Activities include singing, dancing, focused listening and simple instrument playing, creating an environment in which the child's music aptitude is nurtured and skills are developed. Occasional use of drums and hoops enhance the delightful playtime. Patterns continue as part of every class to shape listening skills and acquaint the child with the rhythms of music. Dancing with scarves and hiding games are part of the fun! Parent (or other grown-up) and child enjoy a time of bonding, playing and music-making!
Tuition: $235
Materials: $38.50 (sales tax included) CD/Parent Book & Jingle Sticks
Total: $273.50
Activities include singing, dancing, focused listening and simple instrument playing, creating an environment in which the child's music aptitude is nurtured and skills are developed. Occasional use of drums and hoops enhance the delightful playtime. Patterns continue as part of every class to shape listening skills and acquaint the child with the rhythms of music. Dancing with scarves and hiding games are part of the fun! Parent (or other grown-up) and child enjoy a time of bonding, playing and music-making!
Tuition: $235
Materials: $38.50 (sales tax included) CD/Parent Book & Jingle Sticks
Total: $273.50
God's Children Sing (16 mo-5 yrs) - 45 minutes
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- Addresses the spiritual aspects of the young child's life through inspiring songs and joyful dancing.
- Focuses on the experience of those closest to them, such as family, friends and nature.
- Nurtures a child's ability to use language and participate in dramatic play within a musical context.
- Enhances a child's musical aptitude and listening abilities.
- Stories from the Bible are accompanied by appropriate prayers, songs and rituals.
- Enhances moral concepts in daily life. Helps direct energy to expression of feelings.
- Religious tenets will be learned by the children in a joyful manner.
- CD features dancing, rocking, finger plays, bouncing, patterns, focused listening and beginning instrument play.
Tuition: $235
Materials: $38.50 (sales tax included)
Total: $273.50
Cycle of Seasons (3-5 yrs) - 45 Minutes
Saturday 9:45 AM
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Children and parents (or caregiver) attend class together.
The Cycle of Seasons ~ draws its central themes from nature and aims to bring the family into the music, movement, and environmental experience. Life on earth is subject to seasonal changes - a wonderful phenomenon! This class cultivates the child's musical development through songs, tonal and rhythm patterns, drumming, poetry and stories, movement activities, listening games, instrumental play and manipulative games.
The children will explore songs, dances and instruments using themes from the seasons and nature - a subject children love! Children are reminded that music is all around them - even in a sunset or a breath of wind!
The children are introduced to musical language for the rhythm and tonal patterns (Du Du-de for the rhythm patterns, and "do-mi-sol" solfege for tonal patterns.) The children begin to transfer tonal patterns to resonator bars. We continue with active listening and enjoy poetry to experience of the music of language. At this age, the child's language is exploding and is a source of joy and pleasure.
We do group dances for gross motor development and cooperation. A lot of movement is incorporated in all classes to develop balance, control and coordination, and to raise the level of consciousness of how to move, where to move and how parts of the body feel while in action.
The senses - sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste - are the pathways to knowing, and the language for the sensory discoveries is confirmed by touch. As neurological networking occurs through movement, hand-eye coordination develops.
Humans are social beings and naturally seek community. Through making music with other children and adults, young children are invited to become part of a music-making community. Holding hands, listening and moving to music together bond the child to the larger family through shared activities that bring pleasure and enjoyment to everyone. Children will love making music along with their parent (or other grown-up).
Home materials (2 CDs, Parent Booklet, and Listening Game allow the learning and fun to continue at home.
Tuition: $245
Materials: $49.50 (sales tax included) Wind Dancers 2 CDs/Parent Booklet & Listening Game
Total: $294.50
The Cycle of Seasons ~ draws its central themes from nature and aims to bring the family into the music, movement, and environmental experience. Life on earth is subject to seasonal changes - a wonderful phenomenon! This class cultivates the child's musical development through songs, tonal and rhythm patterns, drumming, poetry and stories, movement activities, listening games, instrumental play and manipulative games.
The children will explore songs, dances and instruments using themes from the seasons and nature - a subject children love! Children are reminded that music is all around them - even in a sunset or a breath of wind!
The children are introduced to musical language for the rhythm and tonal patterns (Du Du-de for the rhythm patterns, and "do-mi-sol" solfege for tonal patterns.) The children begin to transfer tonal patterns to resonator bars. We continue with active listening and enjoy poetry to experience of the music of language. At this age, the child's language is exploding and is a source of joy and pleasure.
We do group dances for gross motor development and cooperation. A lot of movement is incorporated in all classes to develop balance, control and coordination, and to raise the level of consciousness of how to move, where to move and how parts of the body feel while in action.
The senses - sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste - are the pathways to knowing, and the language for the sensory discoveries is confirmed by touch. As neurological networking occurs through movement, hand-eye coordination develops.
Humans are social beings and naturally seek community. Through making music with other children and adults, young children are invited to become part of a music-making community. Holding hands, listening and moving to music together bond the child to the larger family through shared activities that bring pleasure and enjoyment to everyone. Children will love making music along with their parent (or other grown-up).
Home materials (2 CDs, Parent Booklet, and Listening Game allow the learning and fun to continue at home.
Tuition: $245
Materials: $49.50 (sales tax included) Wind Dancers 2 CDs/Parent Booklet & Listening Game
Total: $294.50
Music Makers at Home (4 1/2-6 yrs) - 1 hour (Parents attend for last 15 minutes)
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Music Makers at Home is part one of the two year sequential program leading to music literacy and Keyboard. Rudimentary music skills such as pitch matching, beat competency, ensemble development, and music notation are dealt with using themes taken from the child's home environment and natural surroundings. These themes include: My Home, The Woodlands,(Fall materials) Cattail Marsh, The Meadow, (winter materials) Seashore (Summer Materials)
Children ages 4 1/2-6 years will begin to learn how to write music patterns thru making music. An hour of songs, dances, and expanded instrument exploration (use of resonator bars, glockenspiels, and xylophones ) will give the child a solid music foundation in the language of music. We continue with active listening, and listen to and learn about instruments of the orchestra. Names are given to tonal patterns (do-mi-sol) and rhythmic patterns (du du-de du); then we begin to "read" these patterns through card games. Stories, poetry and singing games enhance the child's developing language, vocabulary, compr ehension. This is a wonderful, well-rounded holistic program that meets all the needs of the young child, while taking him/her on the path to music literacy!
Material packets include CDs, a posters and game pieces, notation games, instrument pages and a book.
This curriculum richly supports the development of the skills needed to pursue a successful musical journey. One of the hallmarks of the Musikgarten program is that we are preparing children to be lifelong, joyful musicians. Our curriculum and teachers support music making that fosters a dynamic, playful and creative relationship to music making. Instilling a passion for music is key. As Ellen Johansen writes, “This is the enduring motivation of children to spend the time to learn an instrument and to put in the hours to refine their technique and their musical ear.” Children learn to love to make and express music, not just to play the piano and to simply follow the song sheet.
Tuition: $255
Materials: $60.50 (sales tax included) My Home Place & Woodlands Family Packets
Total: $315.50
Children ages 4 1/2-6 years will begin to learn how to write music patterns thru making music. An hour of songs, dances, and expanded instrument exploration (use of resonator bars, glockenspiels, and xylophones ) will give the child a solid music foundation in the language of music. We continue with active listening, and listen to and learn about instruments of the orchestra. Names are given to tonal patterns (do-mi-sol) and rhythmic patterns (du du-de du); then we begin to "read" these patterns through card games. Stories, poetry and singing games enhance the child's developing language, vocabulary, compr ehension. This is a wonderful, well-rounded holistic program that meets all the needs of the young child, while taking him/her on the path to music literacy!
Material packets include CDs, a posters and game pieces, notation games, instrument pages and a book.
This curriculum richly supports the development of the skills needed to pursue a successful musical journey. One of the hallmarks of the Musikgarten program is that we are preparing children to be lifelong, joyful musicians. Our curriculum and teachers support music making that fosters a dynamic, playful and creative relationship to music making. Instilling a passion for music is key. As Ellen Johansen writes, “This is the enduring motivation of children to spend the time to learn an instrument and to put in the hours to refine their technique and their musical ear.” Children learn to love to make and express music, not just to play the piano and to simply follow the song sheet.
Tuition: $255
Materials: $60.50 (sales tax included) My Home Place & Woodlands Family Packets
Total: $315.50